Shanghai Pudong International Airport

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Shanghai Pudong International Airport 上海浦东国际机场 Shànghǎi Pǔdōng Guójì Jīcháng
Image:Pudong International Airport at night.gif
IATA: PVG - ICAO: ZSPD
Summary <tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Public</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Operator</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Shanghai Airport Authority</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Shanghai</td></tr>
Elevation AMSL		13 ft (4 m)
Coordinates		31°08′36″N, 121°48′19″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
16/34	12,467	3,800	Concrete
17/35	13,123	4,000	Concrete

Shanghai Pudong International Airport (IATA: PVG, ICAO: ZSPD) (Chinese: 上海浦东国际机场; pinyin: Shànghǎi Pǔdōng Guójì Jīcháng) is an airport located in the eastern part of Pudong district of Shanghai, China.

The airport opened on October 1, 1999, replacing Shanghai Hongqiao Airport as Shanghai's international airport and taking over all of its international flights (including flights to Hong Kong and Macau). A second runway was opened on March 17, 2005. A second terminal is under construction and scheduled for completion by 2007. The long-term plan calls for a total of four terminals and four parallel runways, for a final capacity of 80 million passengers per year.

Transrapid (a German maglev company, which has a test track in Emsland, Germany), constructed the first operational maglev railway in the world, from the Pudong International Airport to Long Yang Road Metro station. It was inaugurated in 2002. It has a peak speed of 431 km/h and a track length of 30 km.

The airport was largely funded by a 40 billion yen (~350 million USD) grant from Japan. In 2004, the airport handled nearly 500 flights per day, carrying more than 20 million passengers per year in and out of China's most populated city.

Since Pudong handles many airlines at rush hour times, most planes have to park on the apron. In order to solve this problem, Pudong is building Terminal 2, which will be located behind the first and only terminal right now.

Recently, China Southern Airlines stated that Shanghai Pudong International Airport will be home to its five Airbus A380, however there is no statement if China Southern Airlines will have a hub in Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

1 Airlines and destinations
- 1.1 Cargo airlines
- 1.2 Continental Airlines flights to New York City
2 Incidents
3 Photo gallery
4 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Shanghai Pudong International Airport (Interior) September 2004

Image:Shanghai Pudong Airport1.jpg

Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver)
Air China (Beihai, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nagoya, Ningbo, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Shenzhen, Sydney, Tokyo-Narita, Wenzhou, Yantai)
Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
Air India (Bangkok, Mumbai, New Delhi)
Air Macau (Macau)
Air New Zealand (Auckland)
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
All Nippon Airways (Nagoya, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
American Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare)
Asiana Airlines (Daegu, Jeju, Seoul-Incheon)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna) [Service ends in January 2007]
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong)
- Dragonair (Hong Kong)
China Eastern Airlines (Bangkok, Baoshan, Beihei, Beijing, Busan, Changsha, Cheongju, Daegu, Dalian, Dayong, Delhi, Diqing, Fukuoka, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Gwangju, Haikou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Hiroshima, Hohhot, Hong Kong, Huangshan, Huangyan, Jeju, Jinan, Jingyong, Kagoshima, Komatsu, Kuala Lumpur, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lianyungang, Lijiang City, Lincang, London-Heathrow, Longyan, Los Angeles, Luxi, Luzhou, Madrid, Mandalay, Matsuyama, Melbourne, Mian Yang, Moscow-Domodedovo, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, New York-JFK [from December 8, 2006], Niigata, Ningbo, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Phuket, Qingdao, Saipan, Sanya, Sapporo, Seoul-Incheon, Shantou, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Siem Reap, Simao, Singapore, Sydney, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Tokyo-Narita, Urumqi, Vancouver, Vientiane, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Wuyishan, Xi'an, Xiamen, Xining, Xuzhou, Yantai, Yibin, Yinchuan, Zhangjiajie, Zhaotong, Zhengzhou, Zhoushan, Zhuhai)
China Southern Airlines (Changchun, Dalian, Guangzhou, Haikou, Harbin, Kuala Lumpur, Qiqihar, Sanya, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Zhangjiajie, Zhuhai)
Continental Airlines (Newark) [from March 25, 2007/Pending Gov't Approval]
Emirates (Dubai)
Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi) [Early 2007][1]
Finnair (Helsinki)
Garuda Indonesia (Jakarta, Singapore)
Hainan Airlines (Haikou)
Japan Airlines (Fukuoka, Osaka-Kansai, Nagoya, Tokyo-Narita)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
Korean Air (Busan, Cheongju, Gwangju, Seoul-Incheon)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
Northwest Airlines (Detroit [via Tokyo-Narita; currently seeking U.S. government approval to restore nonstop service], Tokyo-Narita)
Philippine Airlines (Manila)
Qantas (Sydney, Melbourne)
Qatar Airways (Doha, Seoul-Incheon)
Royal Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan)
Royal Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
Shanghai Airlines (Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Haikou, Harbin, Ho Chi Minh City, Jinzhou, Macau, Phnom Penh, Qingdao, Sanya, Seoul-Incheon, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Weihai, Yantai)
Shenzhen Airlines (Shenzhen)
Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, San Francisco)
Virgin Atlantic Airways (London-Heathrow)

In addition, China Airlines, EVA Air and Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) have operated special flights during Chinese New Year to Taipei and UNI Air to Kaohsiung. These flights are part of the Three Links between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (or Taiwan).

[edit] Cargo airlines

Air Bridge Cargo
Air China (Los Angeles, Portland (OR))
Air France
Air Hong Kong
ANA Cargo
Atlas Air
Cargolux
Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong)
China Eastern Airlines
China Southern Airlines
Dragonair
El Al Israel Airlines
Emirates Airlines (Atlas Air)
Federal Express
Great Wall Airlines (Amsterdam) [Suspended]
Japan Airlines
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Nippon Cargo Airlines
Northwest Airlines
Polar Air Cargo
Scandinavian Airlines System (Beijing, Copenhagen)
Shanghai Airlines
Singapore Airlines Cargo (Los Angeles, Singapore)
United Parcel Service
Yangtze River Express

[edit] Continental Airlines flights to New York City

Recently, Continental Airlines proposed a new route from Newark Liberty International Airport to Shanghai. Stiff competition for United States to China routes has prompted Continental Airlines to start services to Shanghai from the lucrative New York market, where Chinese populations thrive. Currently, the process has slowed dramatically pushing Continental Airlines to react by forming an electronic petition to give Continental the gateway from New York to Shanghai.[2] If the files are approved, Continental would be the second airline to operate the New York to Shanghai route, after China Eastern Airlines launches their December 2006 flights to New York. And Continental would be the third airline to operate directly from the United States to Shanghai and they would be the fourth U.S. carrier to operate flights to Shanghai. Currently, Northwest Airlines is in the race to apply for a U.S.-China route, which to restart nonstop service from Detroit to Shanghai (Northwest had nonstop service from Detroit to Shanghai from 2000-2002).[3] This route is currently served via Tokyo.

[edit] Incidents

In January 30,2006, The nose gear of a Cargolux Boeing 747-400F collapsed while parked on the cargo apron.[4]

On May 13,2006, A China Eastern Airbus Industries A340-600, flight 5042 from Seoul to Shanghai suffered a tire burst on all of its main landing gears. Fortunately, none of the 232 passengers were hurt.[5]

On November 19,2006, An Air Canada Boeing 767-300 flight 38 encountered turbulence en route Vancouver from Shanghai. Four cabin members were hurt. The plane safely landed in Tokyo's Narita International Airport. This incident occurred just after a domestic Japan Airlines Boeing 777 flight 1348 experienced turbulence which landed safely in Tokyo's Haneda Airport.[6]